Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

To correct the Deputy, those grants were not stopped. They are still being paid. The schemes were not scrapped; they were just closed to new entrants. People who were availing of them up until then still are. We now need to put in place, on a statutory footing, a new transport support scheme. It is intended to have that legislation published next year and to have it through the Dáil and Seanad so we can fund it for the budgetary cycle beginning in October. There is still some work to do on that.

To answer Deputy Adams's question from Leaders' Questions, 1,600 homes were offered to the Housing Agency, not 1,800. Of those 1,600, 600 were purchased and 1,000 were not purchased for the following reasons: they were unsuitable for social housing, they were not in an area where there was social housing demand, they were bad value for taxpayers' money due to excessive cost, they were withdrawn from sale or there were legal complications related to the property due to title or planning issues.

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